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The decision comes after an unexpected hike of 500 basis points last month, increasing rates from 45% to 50%, as monetary tightening resumed after a...
ANKARA — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday as he seeks to woo Turkish...
ANKARA — Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will visit Turkey over the weekend, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hitting back at...
ANKARA — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will travel to Doha on Wednesday, where he is scheduled to meet Qatari officials in bid to contain...
Israel and Iran traded threats on Tuesday after Tehran's first ever direct attack on its arch foe sharply heightened regional tensions as the Gaza war...
Torrential rain flooded roads, homes and malls and briefly halted operations at Dubai's airport as storms lashed the Gulf on Tuesday, after leaving at...
ANKARA — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs John Bass on Monday, as diplomatic...
ANKARA — Turkey’s Ministry of Trade announced Tuesday export restrictions for 54 product groups, including mainly construction materials as well...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came up short in recent local elections as Turks, including...
Turkey-based humanitarian organization says it was targeted deliberately.
President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday that US policy on Israel depends on the protection of civilians in Gaza, in his...
President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday amid growing domestic pressure to set conditions on US...
ANKARA — Turkey’s High Election Board has reversed its decision to annul the landslide victory by the pro-Kurdish DEM Party’s local candidate...
ANKARA — Turkey’s High Election Board has reversed its decision to annul the landslide victory by the pro-Kurdish DEM Party’s local candidate...
ANKARA — Turkey on Tuesday detained 147 people over suspected links to the Islamic State (ISIS), as authorities expand the crackdown on the militant...
ANKARA — Turkey remains defiant in the face of Israel’s diplomatic protest of comments made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cursing Israeli...
ANKARA — Turkey’s Central Bank, in an unexpected move, hiked interest rates Thursday by another 500 basis points, from 45% to 50%. The surprise...
The United States has circulated for the first time a draft UN resolution calling for an "immediate" ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, as warnings...
ANKARA — Turkey’s competition watchdog on Monday ordered Facebook's parent company Meta to pay a daily fine of roughly $148,000, citing the...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party hit back at criticism on Friday by Hamas and other factions over his appointment of a new prime...
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ANKARA — Turkey is hopeful that it will receive reimbursement from the United States for the $1.4 billion it paid to buy F-35 fighter jets before...
ANKARA — Iraq National Security Council has banned the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been waging an armed campaign against the Turkish...
An international effort is gathering pace to get desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza by sea in a bid to counter overland access...
ANKARA — Turkey and Somalia on Thursday signed an offshore energy cooperation accord, setting the stage for a deepening Turkish presence in the Horn...
ANKARA — Turkish authorities detained seven people on Tuesday, including a former Turkish police officer suspected of selling information to...
ANKARA — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Turkey on Tuesday, on a first such visit since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, to...
ANKARA — The head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency, Ibrahim Kalin, is making his first trip to the US since taking the position, and...
This is an excerpt from Turkey Briefing, Al-Monitor's weekly newsletter covering the main political, business and security stories from Turkey each...
The Turkish foreign minister is set to make his inaugural visits to Venezuela and Mexico in his capacity as his country’s top diplomat.
ANKARA — Turkey will help Somalia develop its maritime security under a defense cooperation deal signed in Ankara earlier this month, the Turkish...
Three Palestinian gunmen killed one person and wounded eight, including a young pregnant woman, in a "terror attack" Thursday near a Jewish settlement...
Palestinians with relatives in Israeli prisons have been deprived of visiting rights during the Israel-Hamas war, opting instead to send messages to...
An Israeli air strike on south Lebanon killed a woman and a girl on Wednesday, prompting Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement to retaliate with...
The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Tuesday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, with Israel continuing to bombard the...
The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Tuesday that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, even as President Joe Biden faced...
ANKARA — Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained six people suspected of spying on behalf of Chinese intelligence in a rare public move...
ANKARA — Turkey is in talks with the United States for the co-production of new F-16 fighter jets it is set to purchase from the US government, the...
ANKARA — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Cairo Wednesday on the first such visit in over a decade, where he is set to meet...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said ties with the UAE had reached "unprecedented heights" as he started a visit to inaugurate the...
ANKARA — Turkey and Somalia on Thursday signed a cooperation deal on defense amid lingering tensions in the Horn of Africa over a controversial...
An Israeli drone strike on a car in south Lebanon seriously wounded a commander of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, sources on both...
ANKARA — Turkey and Somalia on Thursday signed a cooperation deal on defense amid lingering tensions in the Horn of Africa over a controversial...
ANKARA — Turkey’s new Central Bank governor, Fatih Karahan, said on Thursday that the bank may resume monetary tightening if the country's...
ANKARA — Vigils, memorials and prayers were scattered Tuesday across Turkey’s 11 provinces that were struck by two major earthquakes exactly a...
ANKARA — Two gunmen from a suspected far-left group attacked an Istanbul courthouse on Tuesday, killing one and wounding five before being killed by...
ANKARA — Two gunmen from a suspected far-left group attacked an Istanbul courthouse on Tuesday, killing one and wounding five before being killed by...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Egypt on Tuesday as part of his latest Middle East crisis tour, seeking a new ceasefire and "an enduring...
Mediators pushed on with efforts for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire as fighting raged in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday, deepening a dire humanitarian...
British foreign minister David Cameron met Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati in Beirut Thursday to discuss defusing tensions on the Lebanon-Israel...